Ulfheðnar – Page 2 – Obscura Natura

● calling the unknown: the psychopomp principles of Hermes

·August 10, 2025·4 min read

Hermes, in Greek mythology, embodies a paradoxical blend of qualities: he is the fleet-footed messenger of the gods and a divine trickster. As an infant, Hermes famously stole Apollo’s cattle – an audacious prank that announced him as patron of thieves, liars, and mischief-makers . Yet Hermes is also the...

◐ allowing the non human into our consciousness: organic mind

Experience

·August 7, 2025·3 min read

The dream as a key to otherness – When dreaming we acquire a temporary self with limited point of way. The process by a different process of dissociation than the one present in the wake state. The dreaming experience is full with emotional tone and associated memories. This remembered bundle...

◐ coming close to otherness as the ultimate goal of life (or: love ♥️ and death ☠️)

Experience

·August 7, 2025·2 min read

The ego is the illusion that everything else is in the image of the self —Nature A famous philosopher once defined the the fundamental drive in life: not merely crude domination, but the force toward growth, overcoming, creativity, and the expansion or enhancement of one’s strength or influence. This philosopher,...

○ passenger lifestyle philosophy : crossing life between two sides

Experience

·August 7, 2025·

○ beyond time : good and evil : vitality and life itself

Experience

·August 7, 2025·1 min read

Blind vor Wahn getrieben und rasendin Trance, berauscht, entmenschlichtbestialisch, so wird zum Tier, wasmenschlich einst warund dereinst zumGott, Zerstörer Gaias Ich bin der Terror, ich bin die Schwarze,ich bin der Quell unerträglicher Schmerzen, Meine Worte verführen, sie brennen sich ein, bis dein Geist sichverliert im formlosen Sein Times makes all...

◐ a contemporary crisis of the concept of time: the disaster of modernity

Time

·August 7, 2025·4 min read

This is a somewhat critical article. We will try to examine if language had impaired our experience of the world, and how does symbolic abstraction reshapes (and narrows) perception ? Fänden auch wir ein reines, verhaltenes, schmales Menschliches, einen unseren Streifen Fruchtlands zwischen Strom und Gestein. Denn das eigene Herz...

◐ time as a by-product of consciousness not as law

Time

·August 6, 2025·1 min read

C.G. Jung – synchronicity two psychic events happen together, because of a conjunction of meaning not causality. The physical world is a visible manifestation of the collective unconsciousness – which is psychic, ‘mind stuff’. Synchronicity would be a coincidence of a mental and physical state. The causal and mental states...

● the universe looking at itself from your own eyes : collective consciousness

Experience

·August 6, 2025·6 min read

In one of the other posts I wrote about certain experiences that I had. I was able to experience something that challenged my definition of consciousness. We think about consciousness as the inhabiting of a particular point, a perspective, in time and space, the experience of a subject. We experience...

○ learning to experience time through the non human

Time

·August 6, 2025·

○ everything would become other than what they are

Time

·August 6, 2025·1 min read

North-ward songCrystalline woodsRainfall on mossLife begins anew Who speaks for the wolf?FreedomWho speaks for the wolf?Freedom πάντα ῥεῖ The world is ever-changing, nothing stays the same, ‘panta rhei’ “everything flows”. It is the nature of all things to become other than what they are, if we see a different picture...

◐ time is undividable and paradoxes of identity

Time

·August 6, 2025·1 min read

Zeno’s paradox isn’t just about motion — it’s about the assumption of continuity and identity through time. Identity as the Deeper ProblemZeno’s paradox isn’t just about motion — it’s about the assumption of continuity and identity through time. The idea that “Achilles” is the same Achilles at each point in...

○ language and vitality as opposites : perspective

Language

·August 6, 2025·1 min read

— Is consciousness among the rest, being aware of death, of “finitude“, Transience, Impermanence… etc Can empathy work on a different scale than human scale, and complete a circle so it expresses on cosmic level as much as organic/cellular level – Everything that exists is shaped by time, and time...